The club of HD crash w/o backup. I'm using Ubuntu disc ATM but have to figure out how to get the old disc copied to a new one. Thank goodness I'm computer illiterate.OH:
Maybe if you can, putting the HDD in another computer with a disc burner to make some backup discs can be the answer. Otherwise, if the HDD format is not corrupt, you can reinstall the OS without formatting your hard drive and then make a backup. However, if you do this you must format your HDD after saving all your stuff, there's no way that an OS installed over damaged stuff can be stable:noooo:. Good luck with it ¬_¬ BTW, I just did this a few hours ago almost in the same situation, the only difference was that my PC was working so bad that every backup DVD I tried to burn died in the process :banghead:
God... Sorry man. Thats a club that I soon dont wish to join again... Please dont jinx my full 300 GB hardrive right now... :crying:
It's not as bad as it seems. The worst part is it's a work/personal computer and it'll take a long time to recreate some of the documents I made for work. I think it's just a bad sector since I can still read most of the files when I mount the drive. The computer will not boot windows and that's the main issue.
If you're using windows it's extremely easy to recover your stuff. Just install it without making changes in your hard disk (w/o formatting) and then you'll can backup all your stuff. Even if you lost stuff there're some apps that allow you to recover lost files, they're easy to use and they'll recover your files if you didn't move lots of files in the HDD :thumbsup:
Just build your kernel w/ NTFS support and try to read it from Linux. If you still can't read it, then yeah, you're fucked. I'm trying to set up a RAID1 file server and it's going awful. I sent back the CPU & Mobo to be checked, but people are telling me it might be memory even though memtest ran for 16 hours w/o problem.
It sucks when you realize after a reformat that the backup DVDs you created are all corrupt (before the days of having an external HD). :/
Thanks for the tips guys. Right now I'm deleting some files I don't need and moving some to cd before I try the restore feature this laptop has. I might just get a new drive and try to copy everything (that's good) first then try the restore on the old drive. It has a bad/unfixable sections according to chkdsk I ran. It's kind of interesting trying these different things to fix it without much worry.
Yep. memtest is not 100% effective in testing RAM. I've come across RAM that passes memtest for 3 days straight, but end up being the cause of the problem.
Well I picked up a bigger HD and tried with several free programs to copy the drive only to get stuck at the first bad sector (I guess). I'm off to pick up some retail software and hope it's the solution.
